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Word: cracking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1890
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Jack Horner, the crack pitcher of last season's New Haven League base ball team, has signed an agreement to coach the Yale ball team. He will begin his duties about the middle of January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/8/1890 | See Source »

...Berkeley Athletic Club, of New York City, will hold its first annual spring meeting at the Berkeley Oval on May 17. The committee having charge of the games, with Wendell Baker, '86, chairman, has sent invitations to the crack athletes of the I. C. A. A. N. A. and of the A. A. U., and judging from the large number of entries already received the games will be very successful. The track is in excellent; condition; at the intercollegiate meeting in May, 1889, eight records were broken in the fifteen events: since then the track has been improved a good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berkeley Athletic Club Meeting. | 4/23/1890 | See Source »

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